Online ramblings and other work displacement activities by writer David Bishop

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Cool, creepy app brings book cover to life

Combine Seth Patrick's new novel Reviver with an app called Blippar and the clip above shows you what happens - cool, and yet super creepy. Here's the blurb for the book:

Revivers. Able to wake the recently dead, and
let them bear witness to their own demise. Twelve years after the first
reviver came to light, they have become accepted by an uneasy public.
The testimony of the dead is permitted in courtrooms across the world.
Forensic revival is a routine part of police investigation.

In
the United States, that responsibility falls to the Forensic Revival
Service. Despite his troubled past, Jonah Miller is one of their best.
But while reviving the victim of a brutal murder, he encounters a
terrifying presence. Something is watching. Waiting. His superiors tell
him it was only in his mind, a product of stress. Jonah is not so
certain.

Then Daniel Harker, the first
journalist to bring revival to public attention, is murdered, and Jonah
finds himself getting dragged into the hunt for answers. Working with
Harker's daughter Annabel, he's determined to find those responsible and
bring them to justice. Soon they uncover long-hidden truths that call
into doubt everything Jonah stands for, and reveal a threat that if not
stopped in time, will put all of humanity in danger.